GMAT Quantitative Reasoning Practice Test 6

Question : 62 of 100

Marks: +1, -0

Gwen has to divide her money between her three sons. If the older brother received 65% of the total amount and the other two received the same amount of money, how much money did the median brother get?
(1) The combined amount of money of the older brother and the small one is

\$ 45,000

.
(2) The older brother received

\$ 35,454.5

Statement (1) BY ITSELF is sufficient to answer the question, but statement (2) by itself is not.
Statement (2) BY ITSELF is sufficient to answer the question, but statement (1) by itself is not.
Statements (1) and (2) TAKEN TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question, even though NEITHER statement BY ITSELF is sufficient.
Either statement BY ITSELF is sufficient to answer the question.
Statements (1) and (2) TAKEN TOGETHER are NOT sufficient to answer the question, requiring more data pertaining to the problem.

Validate

Solution:

The data gave us the ratio of the amounts each one got

(65:17.5:17.5)

, therefore all we need is one number to know how much each of the brothers received. Each of the statements above gives us enough information to solve the problem.

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